Based on the length of time it's taking to prepare the order, I can only assume the person in front of me in the Zaxby's drive-through ordered steak and lobster.

A few things that make me smile

I've had a few things kicking around in my head lately, and a few posts in various states of completion that I haven't published. The past weeks have just been really busy, and I haven't really mad the time to get out whatever is on my mind. I just wanted to share some things I'm really loving these days.

There are a couple of new country acts that I really love. Zac Brown Band followed up Chicken Fried with Whatever It Is. Both songs are fantastic, so they are at least a two hit wonder. However, my absolute favorite, "Shhh! Be quiet and turn it up" song these days is from Lady Antebellum.

I love I Run to You, not just because the lead singer lets me know what I would look like with a full beard without going to the trouble of growing one. Without using the harbor analogy, the song just perfectly encapsulates what everyone is (or should be) looking for in a relationship- that person you know you can count on and trust completely no matter what the world dishes out.



On a related note, Shazam is far and away the best toy on the new phone.

Lord knows I'm far from the first (or thousandth) to mention the text from last night, but it's worth wading through the obvious fakes to uncover the occasional gem.

This Sims 3 experiment had me laughing out loud. It's always good to discover someone else with a sense of humor every bit as weird as your's out there.

When I first saw this flyer, my legs were bouncing in excited anticipation. It's worth overlooking the saturated fat and 850 calories.


It's not as good as the Hardee's peach shake from a few years back, but it's still a peach shake. You don't argue, you just order it.

Makes me wanna say "Oh my Lawd!"

I like the woman cowering in fear the as the mob enters.

My suggestion to fix the draft lottery

The Los Angeles Clippers can never ever win it again. I hate that franchise. It ticks me off to see them constantly getting lucky in the lottery so they can hold another great player hostage for three years.

It was even worse this year that the other teams in the top two are franchises I actually like. Instead of seeing Memphis in the playoffs, or Blake Griffin playing in front of the home state Oklahoma fans, we get to see him mismatched with Zach Randolph. Yay.

Fresh Prince imitates life

I Think I Can Beat Mike Tyson came up on the random shuffle today.



This was released before Buster Douglas, when Tyson was a force of nature and serious boxing historians were annointing him as one of the best in the history of the sport. As I listened to the song, I realized people would have been stunned to learn that in less than a decade, a Fresh Prince-Tyson fight would've only been the second weirdest fight of Tyson's career.

Cartoons are fun

On the way back to RG last night, I somehow found myself in an extensive phone conversation about attractive cartoon characters. It lasted close to an hour, but IC and I found common ground on most names.

Some of the highlights:

IC: Does the girl mouse from Rescue Rangers count?
(awkward silence)
IC: Screw it. You said Cheetara a few minutes ago, so you can't say anything. She's going on my list.

IC: (During a sub-discussion of Disney heroines) Ok, here's the rankings in reverse order: Belle, Jasmine, Ariel with legs... Ariel with the fish tail.

Me: Ok, who was that female bunny ... not Bugs dressed up as a woman, but the one they made up to be his girlfriend?
IC: The one from Space Jam? ... Lola, Lola Bunny.
Me: Yeah, that's the one. I like her. Plus, you know she'd be easy, 'cause she's a rabbit.

IC: What about Betty Boop?
Me: She doesn't do it for me... and I always thought she was kind of slutty.

In no particular order, my final list was:

The E-surance girl
The Baroness from G.I. Joe
Ariel
Cheetara
Jasmine
Jessica Rabbit (she was penalized a bit after IC pointed out she was intentionally designed to be sexy, so it felt kind of like cheating)
Kim Possible
Ursula as a human in The Little Mermaid

The conversation was ended by a call from KS. When she discovered how I had been passing the time during my drive, she was stunned. "How did you end up talking about cartoon characters for forty-five minutes?"

I explained, "I don't remember how it started, but it lasted forty-five minutes because we're guys."

Muppets are always cool

Saw the spring music festival this evening. For some reason, I found myself remembering this Muppets clip while I was watching the performances.